democratic new speaker coming in thursday, they're going to try to expand the subpoena. but also as you pointed out, so he lost the vote yesterday on the pipeline project. he had to pull his nominee for the state supreme court and his chief of staff's nomination to be the a.g. is now stalled. does that suggest that cristi christie's power is starting to wane a little bit? >> chris christie has been protected because of his public popularity, other politicians haven't wanted to go after him, when people have written things in the media, it hasn't gained much tracks. behind the scenes he has played sort of the behind-the-scenes game in trenton effectively and you would say ruthlessly, too. and in a way like we're talking about, this incoming assembly speaker. he cultivated an alliance with key democrats in the state. democrats in that state rolled over for him in that election.